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Squeakquel seems not to have been written so much as manufactured from an unwarranted pride in the first Alvin and desperation about what to do next. (If the director played by Daniel Day-Lewis in Nine had seen this movie, his sudden awareness of what the competition was producing would have instantly unblocked his creative sinuses.) The picture's single triumph, true to the mercantile nature of the enterprise, is thunderously obvious product placement. During one of their many demolition scenes, the Chipmunks perform the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" while opening a bag of Utz Cheese Balls. The whole...
Probably not - because experts doubt the measures did much to boost safety in the first place. "You can imagine someone whispering into the ear of an official at Homeland Security and saying, 'If we don't do something and there's another attack, then we're going to get hammered," says Jim Walsh, a research associate in the Security Studies Program at MIT. "That logic has a certain appeal to it if you're trying to protect the reputation of the organization you're employed by, but it doesn't do much for the traveling public...
When are you going to start Twittering? - Tracy Marino, Austin, Texas Our team has used Twitter on occasion. I see it as kind of a time suck that I don't need any more of. Just too much "I got the most awesome new pair of sweatpants." I'm going to go ahead and assume that people buy awesome sweatpants every day and that I don't need to know them by name...
...state House speaker Marco Rubio - an underdog Crist had led by more than 20 points last summer - in next year's Republican primary race for the U.S. Senate. But the next day, Crist was still being Crist. Seemingly ignoring the GOP conservatives who've been lambasting him for reversing much of the red-meat legacy of his predecessor, Jeb Bush, Crist enthusiastically signed a bill expanding passenger rail in Florida - including a high-speed train system Bush made a point of quashing five years ago. The measure, Crist said, will take "the Sunshine State into a new era of economic...
...strident and more inclusive brand of Republicanism to Washington - an approach, shared by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, that many thought the GOP should adopt after last year's disastrous election losses - he has to reckon first with the Bush brand. "He has to spend 2010 hammering home the message, much more strongly than he has up to now, that he is a fundamentally conservative candidate," says Jewett. He still believes Crist is the favorite; but if Crist ends up losing to Rubio, says Jewett, "it could be deadly for moderate Republicans, at least in the short...